Pete Davidson was arguably serving up some serious disrespect at Aretha Franklin‘s funeral … turning up to the 2018 service high on ketamine, at least according to him.

The comic detailed the drug-induced blunder in his Netflix special “Turbo Fonzarelli” … the quipping that he was so high at the 2018 service, that he went up to the late icon’s family, telling them, “Hey! I’m just here to pay my R-E-S-P-E-C-Ts!” Yeesh … that’s bad.

The ex-SNL star jokes Aretha wasn’t around to know he was under the influence … but if she were, she’d ask “what the f***” he was doing at her funeral and who the hell he was in the first place.

That’s a fair assessment — as at the time, he wasn’t that famous and only attended the service as then-fiancée Ariana Grande‘s plus one. Still though, he was pretty known.

Now, Pete adds he was embarrassed being out and about while using ketamine — which he used for 4 years to treat depression — though the drug comes with a range of dissociative and hallucinogenic side effects. It doesn’t seem like Pete’s using ketamine anymore.

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The audience clearly found the story hilarious … but Pete sounds low-key ashamed of his actions at the time — and perhaps for good reason, ’cause it is a pretty wild confession. That said, he’s attempted to get the bad habit under control with 7 rehab stints over the years.

June 2023 was when he last checked in to rehab … also addressing his post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder.

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12/28/23

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Amid his personal woes, he’s been tagged as somewhat of a ladies’ man … and we were pleased to see him looking happy with his new GF Madelyn Cline in a recent clip we obtained. BTW, Pete avoided much of his own love life in the special — so no juicy tidbits about the ladies he bangs. We’ll just have to settle for good old-fashioned material!